Word: minuses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Minus Magic. From Bunia, Hoare led an armada of three outboard as sault boats up Lake Albert and took the port of Mahagi with hardly a shot fired. A land force moved more cautiously, with four Ferret armored scout cars spraying likely ambush spots along the road with machine-gun fire. Congolese planes, flown by anti-Castro Cuban pilots, had showered leaflets on rebel territory. Printed in Lingala, Swahili...
...past, concentrators had to be in Group V or above, had to have a C-minus or better on the essay and in tutorial...
...came to Cambridge minus All-American foil expert Ron Schwartz who was bed-ridden with influenza...
Most important of all is to cultivate the right people. The rule of thumb, Smith suggests, is to assign each individual a numerical value-a member of the old aristocracy ten points, any millionaire eight, a corporation lawyer six, an obscure artist two, a clerk 0, a factory worker minus one, a Japanese (except in California) minus three-then allot each a proportionate amount of attention. Add to this a "respectful, alert, eager to learn and anxious to serve" demeanor toward ecclesiastical superiors, and eventually someone will tell the powers that be, "Jim Goodfellow is the man you are looking...
...fame) and the swish Lake Bluff Bath and Tennis Club, whose ultra-exclusive membership (an applicant must have "good tennis manners and be a nice person") has access to squash courts, an ice-skating rink, sauna and toboggan hill in addition to two quality indoor courts. Even Washington, D.C., minus a single indoor club to its name until last fall, today has two, which furnish a total of six courts...